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Paul Ford

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Paul Ford is a writer, programmer, and software entrepreneur. He lives in Brooklyn.

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience

To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect

My Tips for a Killer Product Launch

My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes

How the Piano Helped Me Fall Back in Love With Tech

So Your Kid Wants to Be a Twitch Streamer

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

A Tweet Before Dying

Dear Artists: Do Not Fear AI Image Generators

What Modern Humans Can Learn From Ancient Software

Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability

Life Is Great in the Age of No Secrets

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?

Time Got So Much Weirder. The World Needs a New Lexicon

I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker